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Don't try to carve the turkey on a crowded table with everyone watching. Present the perfectly roasted fowl to the guests, collect your 'oohs' and 'aahs,' then whisk it back to the kitchen or a sideboard for butchering. If you're really clever you can enlist your tea trolley or bar cart to wheel around the table, carving to order at each guest's place.

Must. Have. Faux horn. Trim.

"...but the interior is not overly nautical."

Really?

As with many other human talents and abilities, some people have a natural affinity for recognizing and balancing colours, others can be educated to varying levels of expertise, and some few never quite get it no matter how it is explained to them. I have known people who insisted that all shadows are grey no matter what colour they fall upon. Design professionals (who may start off in the talented group any way) typically spend a lot of time studying how colour works and it's one reason why their solutions with colour tend to be more successful and polished than DIYers, IMO.

I don't want to feel 'at home' when I'm in an hotel! I want to feel as though I'm in someone else's comfortable, luxurious home where all of the picayune details of my personal care and entertainment will be attended to by invisible cat-footed staff. Obviously none of that would be happening in the digs pictured here.

It should probably be said that these decor choices may work best for men who wish to remain single... for a while.

Lots more info and description than usual in this question and I'm sure you will get very helpful advice from commenters here. Here's mine: the busy floral rugs you favour will send the room in a decidedly 'cottagey' direction which is completely at odds with your existing MCM style upholstery pieces. That would be a difficult fence to straddle. The only rug that works, IMO is the rectangular colour-block one (Crate & Barrel?). If that is to be your major textile, choose your palette from those colours. Also, keep scale and height in mind; everything in the room now is low and nothing has an important scale.

Faux suzani? Don't you cry for me :D

(sorry, couldn't resist)

There's a lot more chintz than I would have expected, having seen YSL and Bergé's Paris apartment and their other villa in Marrakech. But I love how they have allowed some rooms, such as the porch with its rattan furniture and the pink sitting room with the green establishments, to remain relatively unadorned and more in keeping with local vernacular to give a strong sense of place.

Anything can be made to work. The really critical factor will be whether you are willing to do whatever else is necessary in the room to achieve the look you want. If your wall colour and trim colour are both quite dark, is an overall sombre effect one you will enjoy? If it looks as if the room will need a white or bright carpet, is that practical for your lifestyle? Do you want the furniture to stand out or to recede? Where are the focal points and what are the accents in your design? Going with a more conventional paint scheme might make such questions easier to answer, but choosing an unconventional scheme might also make the answers more interesting.